The Just Don't Get It!

Authors’ Note The story you just read isn't an isolated example. It captures the everyday reality of site leaders who live in the middle---pulled between corporate expectations and shop floor execution. This book is about giving those leaders a way forward: practical tools, a common language, and a framework for creating alignment---between strategy and execution, executives and employees, the top floor and the shop floor. Between us, we've spent more than seventy years leading manufacturing operations. We're not consultants writing from the outside looking in--- we've lived this work from the inside out. If you'd like more about backgrounds, see our bios and some case studies starting on page 121. Our experiences---sometimes painful, sometimes transformative---taught us what it really takes to stand in the middle between executives and the shop floor. We've both seen strategies fall flat when they don't connect with reality, and we've seen plants come alive when leaders earn trust, make data visible, and align people with purpose. This book is our attempt to pass

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